Many thoughtful, sincere people worldwide who reverence the Bible are convinced that the world has come to the “time of the end,” the “last days,” and that Jesus’ promise to come again is overdue in timing. The world desperately needs Him to come as “King of kings and Lord of lords.” The anguish and pain worldwide are enormous, many suffer miserably while the wealthy revel in selfish pleasure. It’s “the days of Noah” redivivus.
The Bible abounds in promises of Heaven pouring out on earth a final revelation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that came initially at Pentecost. We are told to “pray for the latter rain” of the Spirit. A number of movements have arisen in which large masses of people have made this prayer their combined concern.
This particular writer remembers the “Victorious Life” revivals of the 1920’s and 1930’s. They were interdenominational. In particular, one church expected a period of 40 years’ “wandering in the wilderness” to reach its end in 1928. The revivals extended into the 1930’s and were snuffed out in the rise of Nazism and a cruel war greater than any history had recorded.
The bloodbath was utterly horrible; may it never be repeated!
Then the war was finally over; now came wonderful economic prosperity, and another movement to petition Heaven for that long delayed gift of “the latter rain.” This writer and his wife were sent to Uganda and Kenya as missionaries. We thought the Lord was returning soon as He has promised in John 14:1-3.
Is the Lord reticent to grant the gift He has promised? No, it cannot be; Jesus told us that He is more willing to grant the outpouring of His Holy Spirit than parents are to give their children good gifts (Luke 11:13).
But are they ready to recognize, and to receive His blessings, and are they ready and competent to distinguish between the genuine gift and the very clever counterfeits which the world’s great “false christ” will foist upon us?
And are we sure that we have an informed understanding of what a genuine gift of the latter rain of the Holy Spirit really is?
Heaven has not been dilatory, nor reticent to respond. Google may not help in the research, but there has been a tremendously important history of the “latter rain.”
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